iTV, cablecard, .n

[LuKreme]

On 27-Dec-2006, at 12:02, Roger Howard wrote:
> On Tue, December 19, 2006 1:38 pm, LuKreme wrote:
>> On 12-Dec-2006, at 13:22, Roger Howard wrote:
>>> Same here; it would be a major flop if it required realtime
>>> transcoding of video.
>>
>> Isn't that exactly what the Xbox 360 does with a MediaCenter PC?
>
> In most cases, no, I don't believe it does. Maybe it can, for  
> formats not
> supported natively on the Xbox 360 though? But the Xbox itself has  
> native
> support for common MS formats, and I'm fairly sure any
> decoding/conformance happens on the XBox during playback.

Hmm... it was my impression that the only thing the 360 could play  
natively was DVD (MPEG-2) and possibly WMV10 and that everything  
else, including divx, mpeg-4, MP3, h.264, and even WMV9 was  
transcoded on the fly by Windows MC to some 360 only format.

Course, my source was "some guy on IRC" and since there is 0% chance  
of my 1) buying a 360 2) buying Windows MC, 3) running Windows MC or  
4) using a 360 as my HTPC; well, I didn't pay that much attention.

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